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ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2017

Immunogenicity and loss of response to TNF inhibitors: implications for rheumatoid arthritis treatment.

Joachim R Kalden, Hendrik Schulze-Koops

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04731831 (Characterization of Immunogenicity of Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors in Arthritis Patients With Poorer Treatment Response Due to Gender, Obesity and Smoking Status.), which is not on this map. Cited by 103 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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103citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT04731831 unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

Characterization of Immunogenicity of Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors in Arthritis Patients With Poorer Treatment Response Due to Gender, Obesity and Smoking Status.

TypeobservationalSponsorAalborg University HospitalRan2020 to 2025Enrolled120ConditionsArthritis, Rheumatoid, Arthritis, Psoriatic, Spondylitis, Ankylosing
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 178 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joachim R KaldenFriedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Division of Molecular Immunology, Nikolaus-Fiebiger Center, Glückstraße 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany.
Hendrik Schulze-KoopsLudwig-Maximilians-University, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, Pettenkoferstraße 8a, D-80336 Munich, Germany.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The availability of monoclonal antibodies has revolutionized the treatment of an increasingly broad spectrum of diseases. Inflammatory diseases are among those most widely treated with protein-based therapeutics, termed biologics. Following the first large-scale clinical trials with monoclonal antibodies performed in the 1990s by rheumatologists and clinical immunologists, the approval of these agents for use in daily clinical practice led to substantial progress in the treatment of rheumatic diseases. Despite this progress, however, only a proportion of patients achieve a long-term clinical response. Data on the use of agents blocking TNF, which were among the first biologics introduced into clinical practice, provide ample evidence of primary and secondary treatment inefficacy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Important issues relevant to primary and secondary failure of these agents in RA include immunogenicity, methodological problems for the detection of antidrug antibodies and trough drug levels, and the implications for treatment strategies. Although there is no strong evidence to support the routine estimation of antidrug antibodies or serum trough levels during anti-TNF therapy, these assessments might be helpful in a few clinical situations; in particular, they might guide decisions on switching the therapeutic biologic in certain instances of secondary clinical failure.

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Antibodies, MonoclonalAntirheumatic AgentsArthritis, RheumatoidDrug ResistanceHumansTreatment FailureTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaAntibodies, MonoclonalAntirheumatic AgentsTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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PMID29158574
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